Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the progress in the field of synchronization and
communication with chaotic laser systems. The origin of chaotic dynamics in lasers is …

In this volume, six review articles which cover a broad range of topics of current interest in
modern optics are included. The first article by S. Saltiel, AA Sukhorukov and YS Kivshar …

The Stokes vector of an optical signal does not depend on its absolute phase; therefore, we
can construct the phase-insensitive optical communication system, using the Stokes vector …

The fast, irregular, fluctuations of the state of polarization of light output from an erbium
doper fiber ring laser are used to communicate digital information. The experiments illustrate …

2. Background Information AS data communication Systems and networks consume more
and more bandwidth, fiber-optics has emerged as a leading technology for metropolitan and …

This book analyzes novel possibilities offered to the telecommunication engineer in
designing tomorrow's optical networks. Currently, optical and optoelectronic technologies …

2508b ampli? ers located on a single semiconductor substrate. The plurality of
semiconductor optical ampli? ers operable to perform an optical switching operation on at …

In this paper, we propose a new modulation scheme based on combining frequency and
polarization modulated signals, which we will refer to as hybrid frequency-polarization shift …

The authors demonstrate the potential of using POLarization Shift Keying (POLSK)
modulation format combined with semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) in wavelength …

A switching element capable of being used in an optical processing device includes an
optical signal separator operable to separate a multiple wavelength optical signal into one …